Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D., was trained in Buddhist Studies at Lancaster University in England, as well as at Harvard and the University of Sri Lanka. The former executive director of IMS, he is currently the executive director and senior scholar at BCBS, and is editor of the Insight Journal. For a complete bibliography of his writing, please click here.

Mu Soeng is the study center’s program director and resident scholar. He trained in the (Korean) Zen tradition and was a monk for eleven years. He is the author of Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen (Tradition and Teachers); The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World; and Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of Chinese Zen.

Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia has been a Dhamma teacher since 1990. She is a student of the western forest sangha, the disciples of Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Chah, and is a Lay Buddhist Minister in association with Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California. She served as resident teacher of IMS in Barre, Massachusetts from 1996 through 1999.

Ajahn Amaro is co-abbot of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in northern California. A monastic in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah since 1978, he is the author of, among others, Silent Rain, Small Boat, Great Mountain, and most recently with Ajahn Passano The Island­—An Anthology of the Buddha’s Teachings on Nibbāna.

James Austin, M.D. studied Zen in Kyoto, Japan with Kobori-Roshi while pursuing a career as academic neurologist. He is the author of Zen and the Brain; Zen-Brain Reflection; and the upcoming Selfless Insight: Zen-Brain and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness.

Martine Batchelor was a Zen Buddhist nun in Korea for ten years. She teaches meditation retreats worldwide. She is the author of The Path of Compassion and Women in Korean Zen: Lives and Practices. Her latest book is Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits.

Stephen Batchelor was a monk for ten years in the Tibetan and Korean Zen traditions. He teaches meditation and Buddhism worldwide and is the author of many books, including Buddhism without Beliefs and Living with the Devil. He is currently working on a book, provisionally titled Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.

Gregory Bivens is a training coordinator on the Holistic Health Recovery Program and 3-S therapy, two structured HIV prevention interventions for drug users, based at Yale University’s School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Substance Abuse, Harm Reduction Unit.

Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994, and was authorized to teach in 1997. He teaches in Europe and North America.

Caroline Brazier, M.Phil., author of Other-Centred Therapy; Listening to the Other; Guilt; The Other Buddhism; and A Buddhist Psychology (published as Buddhism on the Couch in the US), is head of educational programs at Amida Trust. A psychotherapist, groupworker and teacher, ordained Pureland Buddhist priest, she has been chair of the UK Network of Buddhist Organizations and is currently centrally involved in the development of Buddhist hospital, university and community chaplaincy both nationally in the UK and locally in Leicester. Mother of three adult children, in her spare time she writes fiction, enjoys travelling and the arts.

David Brazier, Ph.D., author of Love and Its Disappointment: The Meaning of Life, Therapy and Art; Who Loves Dies Well; The New Buddhism; The Feeling Buddha; Zen Therapy; Beyond Carl Rogers; and A Guide to Psychodrama, also contributed to Against and For CBT; and Never Die Alone: Death as Birth in Pure Land Buddhism. He is Head of the Amida Order, a Pureland Buddhist community in England, a writer, poet, critic, social innovator, traveler, teacher, gardener, photographer, campaigner, bookworm and psychotherapist.

Mark Epstein, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker; Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart; Open to Desire; Going on Being; and Psychotherapy Without the Self.

Christina Feldman is a cofounder of Gaia House in England and an IMS senior teacher. Following training in the Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist traditions, she has been teaching meditation since 1976 and has an ongoing commitment to the long-term retreat program at Gaia House. Her books include Woman Awake!; Silence; The Buddhist Path to Simplicity; and Compassion.

Paul Fulton is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. He is Director of Mental Health for Tufts Health Plan, and president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He received tokudo initiation as a Zen Buddhist in 1972. He is the co-editor of the book Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.

Joseph Goldstein is a co-founder and guiding teacher of IMS. He has been teaching vipassana and metta retreats worldwide since 1974. In 1989, he helped establish BCBS and, more recently, The Forest Refuge. He is the author of One Dharma, The Experience of Insight, and Insight Meditation, and co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom.

Susan Kaiser Greenland develops and teaches mindfulness programs to children as well as to classroom teachers, parents, therapists and health care professionals. The co-founder of InnerKids, she is a member of the clinical team for the Pediatric Pain Clinic at UCLA’s Children’s Hospital and a consultant with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.

Rick Hanson, PhD began meditating in 1974 and has practiced in several traditions. A neuropsychologist, writer, and teacher, he co-founded the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom (see www.WiseBrain.org) and edits the Wise Brain Bulletin. First author of Mother Nurture (Penguin, 2002), his latest book is Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom (with Rick Mendius, MD; Preface by Jack Kornfield, PhD and Foreword by Dan Siegel, MD). He started sitting at Spirit Rock in 1993 and recently completed a nine-year term on its Board. A graduate of the Community Dharma Leader training program, he leads a weekly meditation group in San Rafael.

Mark Hart has practiced insight meditation since 1981. He is the founder and guiding teacher of the Bodhisara Dharma Community. With a master’s degree in counseling and a Ph.D. in theology, he has a private practice of psychotherapy in Amherst.

Chip Hartranft is the founding director of The Arlington Center, dedicated to the integration of yoga and dharma practice, and has taught a blend of yoga movement, breathwork, and mindfulness in the Boston area since 1978. He is the author of The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: A New Translation with Commentary.

Christopher Ives is a professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. In his teaching and writing he focuses on modern Zen ethics, and currently he is working on Buddhist approaches to nature and environmental issues. He is the author of Zen Awakening and Society and Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics.

Rajesh Kasturirangan is a faculty member at the National Institute of Advanced Studies at Bangalore, India. He has a doctorate in cognitive science from MIT.

Arnold Kozak is a mindfulness meditation-based psychotherapist, educator, and consultant based in Burlington, Vermont. He is the founder of Exquisite Mind and teaches at the Department of Psychology at the University of Vermont and is also a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He is the author of Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness.

Gregory Kramer is the director of Metta Foundation, and teacher of Insight Dialogue meditation and Dharma Contemplation worldwide. He has studied with, among others, Ajahn Sobin, Ven. Ananda Maitreya and Ven. Punnaji Mahathera.

Michael Liebenson Grady is a guiding teacher at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. He also teaches at the Insight Meditation Society. Michael has been practicing vipassana since 1973.

Narayan Liebenson Grady is a guiding teacher at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center where she has been teaching since it opened in 1985. Narayan is also a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society. She is the author of When Singing, Just Sing: Life as Meditation.

Myoshin Kelley began practice in 1975 and has worked with masters in the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. She is teacher-in-residence at the Forest Refuge.

David R. Loy teaches at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He studies Buddhist and comparative philosophy/religion and is the author of Non-duality, Lack and Transcendance, A Buddhist History of the West, The Great Awakening, and Liberating Buddhism (forthcoming). A Zen practitioner for many years, he is qualified as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition.

John Makransky has practiced meditations of compassion and wisdom from Tibetan traditions for thirty years and has pioneered new ways of making them accessible to people of all backgrounds and faiths. A professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College and senior advisor to Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies in Nepal, John was ordained a Tibetan Buddhist lama in 2000.  He is the author, among others, of the newly published Awakening through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness.

Ravenna Michalsen holds an MA from Yale University in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, and is a long-time practitioner of Buddhist meditation. She is a certified teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition and teaches at the Shambhala Center in New Haven, CT. Her academic research interests include the religious authority of women in Tibetan Buddhism. She is also an accomplished cellist and vocalist who has produced two albums and toured the United States and Malaysia.

Willa Miller has studied and practiced in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for the last twenty years, and is an authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She teaches Tibetan Buddhist practice and meditation in the Northeast. She has an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Virginia, and is working towards a PhD at Harvard University. Willa is author of the upcoming book  Everyday Dharma: Eight Weeks to Enlightened Living.

Jack Millett has practiced vipassana meditation since 1990 and has been teaching at Vermont Insight Meditation Center since 2005. He teaches education courses at the School for International Training and at the Center for Mindful Inquiry.

Phillip Moffitt is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and the founder of the Life Balance Institute. He teaches vipassana meditation and is the author of Dancing with Life, a book exploring the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths.

DaeJa Napier teaches vipassana with a particular emphasis on the brahmaviharas. She has practiced and studied in the Zen and vipassana traditions for over thirty years and has been teaching for nearly  twenty years. She maintained a formal practice while raising five children.

Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara is the abbot of the Village Zendo in Manhattan. She is a Soto Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in Maezumi Roshi’s White Plum lineage. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Ecology, and taught at NYU for twenty years.

John Peacock, an academic and meditation teacher for 25 years, currently teaches Buddhist studies and Indian religions at the University of Bristol. He is the Guiding Teacher of Sharpham Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Inquiry in England.

Jason Siff, a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in the late 1980’s, has been teaching meditation in the United States since 1990. He is the founding teacher of the Skillful Meditation Project in Los Angeles.

Paul Simons is an experienced trainer on the Holistic Health Recovery Program and 3-S therapy, two structured HIV prevention interventions for drug users, based at Yale University’s School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Substance Abuse, Harm Reduction Unit. He has been working with drug users since 1979.

Claire Stanley, Ph.D.,  has been a student of Buddhist meditation since 1986. She is the guiding teacher of the Vermont Insight Meditation Center. As an educator, she teaches the interface of mindfulness practices in professional contexts at the Center for Mindful Inquiry.

Janet L. Surrey, Ph.D. is on the Faculty and Board of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She is a clinical psychologist and a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College. She has practiced Vipassana meditation for 28 years, and is a recent graduate of the Community Dharma Leader program of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Her current work is focused on the interface of Buddhist and Relational psychology and relational practice.

Ajaan Thanissaro (Geoffrey DeGraff) has been a Theravadin monk since 1976. The abbot of Metta Forest Monastery in San Diego County, CA, he is a prolific translator of Pali texts and Thai meditation guides. He is the author, among other books, of Wings to Awakening, Mind Like Fire Unbound, and Meditations.

Mark Unno is currently Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Oregon. He specializes in medieval Japanese Buddhist thought and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light, and the editor of Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures. He is also an ordained priest in the Shin Buddhist tradition.

Taitetsu Unno is the Jill Ker Conway Professor Emeritus of Religion at Smith College in Northampton, MA. A priest ordained in the Shin Buddhist tradition, he is the author of Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold, Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic, and River of Fire, River of Water.

William Waldron, Ph. D. has been teaching courses on Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Study of Religion at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, since 1996. His research focuses on Indian Buddhism in general and the Yogācāra school in particular. He has published a monograph on the Yogācāra notion of ‘store-house consciousness’ (ālaya-vijñāna) (The Buddhist Unconscious, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and numerous articles comparing Buddhist and modern theories of mind from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and sociology.

Jan Willis is a professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. One of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, she has studied with Buddhist teachers worldwide and has written extensively on Buddhist meditation, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. Among her published works are Dreaming Me: An Aftrican American Woman’s Spiritual Journey and Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet.

Carol Wilson began meditation practice in 1971. She has studied with a variety of teachers, including practice as a Buddhist nun in Thailand. An IMS guiding teacher, she has been offering retreats around the world since 1986.